Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | About her turn-of-the-century years and her first group of literary friends, ES
wrote later, we fell in and out of love with and without disaster, like other people. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 58 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | ES
first met Henry W. Nevinson
when she collided with him on an ice-rink at Knightsbridge. It was in late 1903 that they became close. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 36, 38 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | After a thirty-year friendship, the sixty-three-year-old ES
married Henry Nevinson
, a recent widower aged seventy-five, who was also a journalist and who had been her lover for thirty years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995. 316 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | Henry W. Nevinson
, journalist, writer, and husband of ES
, died at Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. Nevinson, Henry. Visions and Memories. Editor Sharp, Evelyn, Oxford University Press, 1944. 166 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS
met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs
, Barry Pain
, Jerome K. Jerome
, Hugh Walpole
, and Ernest Temple Thurston
. Pett Ridge (P... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
, Alice Paul
, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
, Elizabeth Robins
, Helena Swanwick
, Henry Nevinson
, Havelock Ellis
, John Galsworthy
, Victor Gollancz
, A. R. Orage |
Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names... |
Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid
, Alice
, and Viola
), Clarence Rook
and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson
, whom she eventually married... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 37-8 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Henry W. Nevinson
called this article most beautifully done and excellent—and he was notoriously hard to please. qtd. in John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 1, 2003, pp. 5-13. 8 |
Literary responses | Evelyn Sharp | Henry Nevinson
, however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift
's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler
's Erewhon. Harold Laski
, too, admired it. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 122, 126 |
Occupation | Evelyn Sharp | ES
was apparently an unusually effective public speaker. Henry Nevinson
, her long-time lover and eventual husband, said she was driven to speech by a white-hot indignation that blazed in her words rather than in... |
Publishing | Evelyn Sharp | ES
took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 93 |
Reception | Edith Mary Moore | In 1938, EMM
's name appeared in an early number of Kriticky Mesicnik, a Czech literary periodical edited by Václav Černý
(reprinted in 1972 and 1992), in a list of British writers including Rosamond Lehmann |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends
Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World... |